Belief function independence: II. The conditional case

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 31-75

  Ben Yaghlane, Boutheina ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b   Mellouli, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Conditional doxastic independence; Conditional irrelevance; Conditional non interactivity; Transferable belief model

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THEOREM PROVING;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0036788747     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(02)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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